South Yorkshire Police chief apologises for past LGBTQ+ witch-hunts
She is only the third UK Chief Constable to do so, following a similar apology by the heads of the Metropolitan and Sussex forces.
Peter Tatchell
Pro-LGBTQ+ protesters arrested in Malaysia
Their protest, outside the downtown Sogo shopping mall on Saturday (29 July), was prompted by the recent public caning of two alleged lesbians and other crackdowns on the LGBTQ+ community in Malaysia.
Chief Constable of Sussex, Jo Shiner, makes “full and unreserved apology” to LGBTQ+ community
The Chief Constable of Sussex, Jo Shiner, has made a “full and unreserved apology” to the LGBTQ+ community for past, historic “prejudice, ill- treatment, bias, discrimination, harm, (and) injustices” by the police.
The Met Police to restore LGBT+ Community Liaison Officers
LGBT+ Community Liaison Officers are part of the force’s “commitment to deliver the strongest ever neighbourhood policing for London, and is a crucial part of the mission for more trust, less crime, high standards”.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, says “sorry” to LGBTQ+ community for his force’s past homophobic persecution
He’s the first UK police chief to apologise.
Call for police apology to LGBTs backed by the late Paul O’Grady
Apologise Now!, a new campaign organised by the Peter Tatchell Foundation to get British police forces to apologise for past “homophobic witch-hunts”, is being launched on Wednesday, June 7
Peter Tatchell pulls out of Oxford Union debate in protest over hosting Kathleen Stock without a trans speaker
Veteran LGBTQ+ human rights defender, Peter Tatchell, has pulled out of tonight’s (Thursday, June 1) Oxford Union Pride debate over its hosting of Kathleen Stock on 30 May, without a speaker to challenge her trans-exclusion policies.